Before Meng Chuan's breakthrough, Ye Fan and the others had already decided on their path forward.
But leaving the Boundary Sea was not something they could simply do on a whim.
If Ye Fan and the others slipped away without a sound, the Weird Race would not even know they had left.
That would indeed let Ye Fan and the others move from the open into the shadows. Attacking places like the Soul River or hunting Weird Quasi-Immortal Emperors invading other heavens would become much easier.
But the Boundary Sea would suffer for it.
Unaware that Ye Fan and the others had left, the Weird Quasi-Immortal Emperors would inevitably come calling one day, just as they had in past battles, expecting them to fight.
But Ye Fan and the others would be gone. The Weird Quasi-Immortal Emperors would wait in vain.
And if Ye Fan and the others never appeared, would the Weird Quasi-Immortal Emperors retreat?
Of course not.
They would have no qualms about attacking the realms of the Boundary Sea directly and slaughtering their inhabitants.
Without Ye Fan and the others, the people of the Boundary Sea could not withstand Weird Quasi-Immortal Emperors. No matter how fiercely they resisted, they would be killed.
The Weird Quasi-Immortal Emperors might even slaughter them to force Ye Fan and the others to show themselves. After all, they would not know their enemies had quietly slipped away.
By then, the entire Boundary Sea would run red. Its waters would no longer be the remnants of destroyed worlds, but the blood of countless lives.
So Ye Fan and the others chose another way to leave: openly, with enough commotion to shake the heavens.
After Meng Chuan disappeared, they waited ten thousand years before the Weird Quasi-Immortal Emperors finally attacked again.
They meant to